From: Raja R Harinath <harinath@hurrynot.org>
Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2010 06:22:35 GMT
Subject: case where diff output needs improving? (was Re: [PATCH v2 0/7] tests: use skip_all=* to skip tests)
Message-ID: <87zkwsxsd0.fsf_-_@hariville.hurrynot.org>
In-Reply-To: <1281553450-26467-1-git-send-email-avarab@gmail.com>

Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> writes:

[snip]     
>     diff --git a/t/t4016-diff-quote.sh b/t/t4016-diff-quote.sh
>     index 10e2db3..ab0c2f0 100755
>     --- a/t/t4016-diff-quote.sh
>     +++ b/t/t4016-diff-quote.sh
>     @@ -14 +14 @@ P2='pathname with SP'
>     -if P3='pathname
>     +P3='pathname
>     @@ -16 +16 @@ with LF'
>     -: 2>/dev/null >"$P1" && test -f "$P1" && rm -f "$P1"
>     +if : 2>/dev/null >"$P1" && test -f "$P1" && rm -f "$P1"

Assuming this was from a git invocation, it seems that 'diff' could just
show line 15 instead of '@@ -16, +16 @@' above.

- Hari